At the very least, download
the latest source and look at the release notes to see whether a bug might be
biting you.
Uniformity
At a heterogeneous site (as most sites are these days), it is often more convenient
to run a common version of sendmail and clone configuration files. Only
by compiling and installing from the source can you achieve a controllable level
of uniformity.
Tuning
A precompiled version of sendmail can lack certain features that you find desirable,
or it can have features that you would prefer to exclude. Table 3-2 (in ?§3.2
on page 105) lists the debugging switches you can use to determine what kind of
features your sendmail has available. If debugging switches are unavailable, the
individual sections at the end of Chapter 3 show methods to determine feature
support or the lack of it.
But beware. Before rushing out and replacing your vendor??™s version of sendmail, find
out whether it uses any special vendor-specific features. If so, and if those features
are more valuable to you than the antispam features and uniformity that we mentioned,
convince your vendor to upgrade for you.
2.2 Download the Source
The latest release of sendmail is available via:
http://www.sendmail.org/
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